Going Underground? Gender and Subcultures
Day Symposium at the University of Northumbria
Friday 7th September 2012
See below for details of the full programme
There is also a sister event taking place the following day:
Researching DIY Cultures: Towards a situated ethical practice
11am-1pm, Saturday 8 September 2012,
Squires Building, 208 Northumbria University
(free workshop as part of Gender & Subcultures symposium)
facilitated by Dr. Julia Downes (Durham University)
And an evening event at The Cumberland Arms, 7th September 2012
With Silverfox, Rexine, No Fit State, The Casual Terrorist, and Milky Wimpshake
£5 on the door, open to the public as well as symposium attendees.
Conference Organisers:
Dr Claire Nally [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Dr Rosie White [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Online booking for the event: www.northumbria.ac.uk/genderandsubculture<http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/genderandsubculture>
PROGRAMME
9.00-10.00 – Registration
10.00 – Welcome
10.15-11.15 Plenary
Catherine Spooner (University of Lancaster) ‘From Meat Cake to Monster High: hyper-femininity, rebellion and the Goth girl as commodity’.
11.15-11.45 Refreshments
11.45- 1.00 Panel 1
a) Music
Michelle Liptrot, (University of Bolton), ‘Gender and Contemporary DIY Punk’
Sarah Downes (Loughborough University), ‘Devil With The Black Dress On: Empowerment and Domination in Goth Metal’
Laura Manicom<https://owa.northumbria.ac.uk/exchange/rwcy3/Inbox/RE:%20Paper%20proposal%20for%20%2527Going%20Underground_x003F_%20Gender%20and%20Subcultures%2527.EML/?cmd=editrecipient&Index=-1> (Grantham College), “I’m getting older everyday and I still feel the same” - older punk women and the construction and maintenance of a punk identity.
b) Youth Culture
Tina-Berith Schrader, (University of Goettingen, Germany), ‘Contexts of gender in youth cultures’
Maddie Breeze (University of Edinburgh), ‘Getting Taken Seriously: Roller Derby and Sporting Legitimacy’
Lemara Lindsay-Prince (University of East Anglia) ,‘“It’s Not A Freshness Out of Societal Expectations” An Exploration into the Invisible Women of Sneaker Culture’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.15 Panel 2
a) Performativity and Subjectivity
Anne Burns (Loughborough University), ‘Reflecting the Vampire: VampireFreaks.com and the online performance of self’
Marike Venter and Guillaume Johnson (University of the Witwatersrand), ‘“Brown on the Inside and Brightly Clashing Colors on the Outside”: Exploring Style and Identity Construction among the South African Smarteez’
Guy Mankowski (Northumbria University) ‘I Can’t Seem To Stay A Fixed Ideal’: Self-Design, Androgyny and Self-Harm In Sub-Cultures
b) Queer – Doris Leibetseder (Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt), ‘Subversive Technological Tracks. Queer-feminist Strategies in Rock and Pop Music’
Robbe Herreman (University of Antwerp), ‘“We are family’. Music and collective identity in the LGB scene in Antwerp (1960-2010)’
Mag.a Maria Katharina Wiedlack, (University of Vienna), ‘Queer-feminist punk rock, politics of negativity and the formation of new social bonds’
3.15-3.45 Screening and Discussion - Nobuko Anan (Northumbria University) ‘Gender and Subculture: Case Studies from Japan’
3.45-4.15 Refreshments
4.15-5.30 Panel 3
a) Magazine and Comic Book Culture
Nicola Allett (Loughborough University), ‘“Extreme Music – No Boundaries” (except gender): Male connoisseurship and the extreme metal magazine’
Michelle Kempson (University of Warwick), ‘“In Some Ways I have a lot of Agency and in Others I Don’t”: Negotiating Feminist Subjectivity within Subculture’
Tosha Taylor (University of Loughborough), : ‘Girls Like This Stuff, Right? DC’s New 52 and the Problem of the Female Comic Book Fan’
b) Fashion, Performance and Transgression
Frances Smith (University of Warwick), ‘Pretty in Pink (Dir. Howard Deutch, 1986): Post-Punk and Performativity’
August Jordan Davis, (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton), ‘The Clothes Make the Man: Leather Tuscadero and Female Masculine Superheroes’
Kevin Hilton (Northumbria University), ‘A Mistaken Subculture within Me-Dressers’
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